Reading this you may wonder about the first leg, which was Huddersfield to Kilmarnock via the Yorkshire Dales. The best bit was the cheese shop n Ribblesdale where having been pressed to try many kinds of cheese we came away with 10 to last us the week. We ate some in a small picnic at Teabay. Whichever way we go round here we cross over routes we have taken before, particularly Hannah’s End to End five years ago.
Kilmarnock has won the strap line Scotland ‘s most improved town. We visited an award winning fish and chip shop.

But the second leg, the original subject of this entry, was wet. We met Hannah at Ardrossan harbour and eventually we were all loaded onto a Cal-mac ferry for Arran. The famous Cal-Mac breakfast with Lorne sausage well worth the wait.
From Brodick to Lochranza it rained. Very open country, the road wandered by the coast, but there was no avoiding Hannah getting soaked on her bicycle. She made very good time but was wet and cold. The 12.00 ferry to Claonaig was warm but brief. As a port it boasted only a bus shelter. Hannah decided to press on. A newly resurfaced single track road of 14 miles with quite a loose surface had to be negotiated before a bar came in sight 1 mile from our destination. Let’s hope some hot food and a chance to dry out concludes the second leg in a more satisfactory way than it started.

Evening came on gently and the rain cleared such that sky, sea and hills were various shades of soft grey. It is quiet and calm.

In our coming and our going
The Peace of God l